When 10 members of the all-black choir at Mount Zion Church in Killen, Ala., flew to Scotland in January on their first overseas trip, they were treated like long-lost family members. "They really, ...

Sung in Gaelic by various inhabitants of the island of Lewis with Harris, Hebrides, Scotland. Notes: "The tunes ... are to be found in the Revised Church Hymnary and in The Scottish Psalter (1929).

A special Yale documentary retraces the trajectory of a rapidly eroding form of congregational singing from Scotland into African-American, Native-American, and white-American religious song ...

An investigation of Professor Willie Ruff's claims that gospel music and the tradition of "lining out", is actually rooted in the Gaelic music traditions of the Scottish slave-owners rather than in ...

What do Mozart, John Zorn and Gaelic psalm singers have to do with each other? Part one of a 1992 film explains: OK, so it's an hour-long documentary on improvisation. But if you catch even the first ...

Hijas del Sol (formerly Sibeba) is featured on this week's The Thistle & Shamrock. This week, the performance style and traditions of both African American gospel and Hebridean psalm singing are ...

Jazz artist Willie Ruff, a Yale University music professor, is convinced that “presenting the line” _ the unaccompanied singing of psalms in Gaelic by Presbyterians of the Scottish Hebrides _ is the ...

Yale Professor Willie Ruff, jazz musician and scholar, brought together three congregations "separated by custom and law," but united in belief and their devotion to a form of psalm singing that spans ...